The reports cite unnamed LTHS students and parents who assert Washington had been looking for a white person to beat up, and chose the victim.Īccording to those reports, Washington had earlier knocked a phone out of the victim’s hand, and told her she was going to beat her up.Īccording to those reports, one of Washington’s associates had allegedly warned the victim that the attack was coming that day. In the video, that student is heard cheering Washington on during the attack, shouting for Washington to “beat her racist ass.”Īccording to reports published by West Cook News, the incident was allegedly premeditated by Washington. The incident was video recorded from beginning to end by another student, identified as a 14-year-old LTHS student, of Countryside. In the video, which has been shared across social media and generated headlines in various news outlets, LTHS sophomore Heavyn Washington,16, of La Grange, is seen grabbing the 14-year-old victim as she exited a classroom, and proceeding to strike her several times about the head and face, and drag her by the hair across the floor. Stroth’s statements come about a week after the April 27 attack against the white freshman girl by a Black sophomore girl at the high school in suburban Western Springs. The video speaks for itself,” Stroth added. “As a result, a 14 year old teenage girl was brutally attacked and traumatized by another student with a documented history of bullying. “Based on (the attacker’s) history, direct communication between the Lenti family, their daughter and school officials and the video evidence captured by surveillance cameras, it’s clear that the school’s administration was on notice and failed to take appropriate actions to protect my client,” Stroth said in an emailed statement to The Cook County Record.

Stroth, of national civil rights firm Action Injury Law Group, of Chicago, issued the first public statement on behalf of the attack victim and her family, identified as the Lenti family. The family of a freshman girl who was beaten in a widely circulated video recorded, possibly racially motivated attack by another student at Lyons Township High School has received the support of a national civil rights lawyer, calling for a full investigation of the incident and potentially signaling legal troubles ahead for the school and its administration.

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